Google announces new Pixel phone at San Francisco event

Alphabet Inc's Google on Tuesday announced a new "Pixel" smartphone at an event on Tuesday, the company's latest effort to sell consumers on a Google-branded device and to challenge Apple Inc's iPhone at the high end of the $400 billion global market.
The new phone starts at a price of $649, and Google is working with exclusively with Verizon Communications in the United States, Google executives said.
Analysts predict the San Francisco product launch will also showcase other Google hardware initiatives, including a voice-controlled speaker system called Home to challenge... read more

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